From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 23 01:41:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10E5FDE for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa06-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa06-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.192.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F537EE for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tao.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa06-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id EpgJ1l0094XeM0101pgJgP; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:40:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:40:16 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Karl Vogel Subject: Re: mutt and http//url??? Message-ID: <20130323014016.GB1983@tao.thought.org> References: <20130322213615.GA23467@tao.thought.org> <20130323003907.C53EBBF82@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130323003907.C53EBBF82@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:41:56 -0000 On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 08:39:07PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:15 -0700, > >> Gary Kline said: > > G> in the past couple years i've sub'd to the nytimes and other places > G> where the http string is several dozens of bytes. in my mutt at least, > G> there are "+" marks embedded at the beginning of each new lines. so > G> that when i mouse lick on the url, > > Don't lick your mouse. That's gross. but it was so tasty! 'specially with chocolatte syrup. > G> i almost invariably get either Nothing from my browswer, or the wrong > G> page. > > You might want to try urlview, bound to Ctrl-B in mutt by default. It's a > screen-oriented program for extracting URLs from text files, putting > them in a menu, and letting you run a command to view a specific item. > > If you're on a FreeBSD system, it's in /usr/ports/textproc/urlview. this was one of the things I tried. I followed the instructions exactly--with urlview and ^B. eventually I wound up with the list but it was hard to decide which was the text! maybe leave o ne konsole wide open on my 4th workspace > -- > Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company > > Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, > and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. --Rebecca Richards > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.